ABBEVILLE, La. (AP) - Vermilion Parish sheriff’s deputies say an Abbeville man is accused of fatally shooting a man from Maurice that also left a 17-year-old girl injured.
Deputies said in a news release received by The Advocate (https://bit.ly/1XQvJ56) 21-year-old Davian Layne Bessard is accused of a count of second-degree murder in the shooting death of 22-year-old Jeremiah Carltrell Walker.
The news release says deputies responding to gunfire around 2:22 a.m. Monday found Walker suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and a 17-year-old girl suffering from a gunshot wound in her upper arm.
Sheriff Mike Couvillon (KOO’-vee-yawn) said the girl was treated and released from an area hospital.
Bessard remained in the Vermilion Parish jail in lieu of $500,000 bail.
Online jail records do not list an attorney for Bessard.
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Information from: The Advocate, https://theadvocate.com
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